NephroCheck: should we consider urine osmolality?

Additional file 1: of NephroCheck: should we consider urine osmolality?

Raw data. Urine osmolality and AKIRisk score of each patient. (DOCX 43 kb)

Post-neurosurgical multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii meningitis successfully treated with intrathecal colistin. A new case and a systematic review of the literature

Summary Introduction Post-neurosurgical nosocomial meningitis has become an important subgroup of bacterial meningitis in the hospital setting. The increase in meningitis caused by multidrug-resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter baumannii has resulted in a significant reduction in available treatment options. Case report and literature review We report the case of a 36-year-old man with a complex craniofacial trauma, who developed a nosocomial meningitis due to MDR A. baumannii that was cured by intrathecal colistin. The case is contextualized among all the published cases of Acinetobacter meningitis treated with topical colistin found through a MEDLINE search of the literature. To date, including …

Outbreak of multi-resistant Corynebacterium striatum infection in an Italian general intensive care unit.

Potential association of specific Candida parapsilosis genotypes, bloodstream infections and colonization of health workers' hands.

AbstractFungal nosocomial infections continue to be a serious problem among hospitalized patients, decreasing quality of life and adding millions of euros to healthcare costs. The aim of this study was to describe the pattern of fungi associated with the hands of healthcare workers and to genotype Candida parapsilosis isolates in order to understand whether their high clinical prevalence stems from endemic nosocomial genotypes or from the real emergence of epidemiologically-unrelated strains. Approximately 39% (50/129) of healthcare workers were positive for yeasts and among 77 different fungal isolates recovered, C. parapsilosis was the most frequent (44/77; 57%). Twenty-seven diverse geno…

Bone marrow biopsy findings in brucellosis patients with hematologic abnormalities: useful remarks.

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Secondary hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis: forget me not!

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